How to Install and Uninstall qemu-system-common Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 15,2024

You can also install and uninstall the qemu-system-common on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "qemu-system-common" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install qemu-system-common on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "qemu-system-common" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall qemu-system-common on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the qemu-system-common package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: qemu-system-common
Source: qemu
Version: 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5
Installed-Size: 11310
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: qemu-system-data (<< 1:3.1+dfsg-1~), qemu-utils (<< 1:3.1+dfsg-3~)
Depends: libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libbrlapi0.8 (>= 6.5), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcacard0 (>= 2.2), libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9), libepoxy0 (>= 1.3), libfuse3-3 (>= 3.2.3), libgbm1 (>= 7.11~1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.67.3), libgmp10 (>= 2:6.2.1+dfsg1), libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5), libhogweed6, libncursesw6 (>= 6), libnettle8, libnuma1 (>= 2.0.11), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.19.6), libseccomp2 (>= 0.0.0~20120605), libsndio7.0 (>= 1.8.1), libspice-server1 (>= 0.14.2), libtinfo6 (>= 6), liburing2 (>= 2.3), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.23~), libusbredirparser1 (>= 0.8.0), libzstd1 (>= 1.5.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Breaks: libvirt-daemon (<< 7.2.0-1), qemu-system-data (<< 1:3.1+dfsg-1~), qemu-utils (<< 1:3.1+dfsg-3~)
Description: QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files)
Description-md5: 9eeecae0ef6b457cabe162fc54e999b8
Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
Tag: uitoolkit::ncurses
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-system-common_7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5_amd64.deb
Size: 2148500
MD5sum: e7a0c47dcc1d000aadd632eea3292dbe
SHA256: 2a688d09e0fdf6ba5dfa834e292220f7fb94888ad8bbe0b1cd8d60043612f600